Robot Learning Engineer - Manipulation
Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale
Roboticsonsite$150k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build manipulation policies from task definition to reliable real-robot deployment.
- Train and evaluate policies on real robots doing real industrial tasks.
- Turn failures into better data, models, and evaluation task after task.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A hands-on roboticist energized by real hardware who takes manipulation from demo to dependable deployment and measures success by reliable performance on customer lines.
Requirements
- 1+ years of professional experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
- Trained or fine-tuned a learned manipulation policy and deployed and evaluated it on a physical robot
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills with ability to write maintainable training, evaluation, and deployment code
- Practical depth in imitation learning and at least one modern policy family such as vision-language-action models, diffusion policies, or action-chunking transformers
- remote policy
- In-office 5 days a week with occasional flexibility
Lab profile
About Applied Intuition
Builds simulation, vehicle OS, and autonomy infrastructure for automotive, defense, and heavy industries.
What they build
- Autonomy software stacks
- Vehicle operating systems
- Simulation and validation tooling
Known for
- Trusted by 18 of top 20 global automakers
- Expertise across automotive, defense, trucking, mining and agriculture
- Full-stack coverage from tooling to OS to autonomy
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Silicon Valley
- Valued at $15 billion
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